| Description |
vi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The sociology of American history |
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Sociology of American history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Richard Hofstadter -- The Turner thesis in comparative perspective: an introduction / Seymour Martin Lipset -- The frontier and American institutions: a criticism of the Turner theory / George Wilson Pierson -- The myth of frontier individualism / Mody C. Boatright -- The Turner thesis re-examined / Everett S. Lee -- Social theory and the pioneer / Allan G. Bogue -- Frontier estate builders and farm laborers / Paul W. Gates -- A meaning for Turner's frontier: democracy in the old Northwest / Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick -- Comparative studies in frontier history / Marvin W. Mikesell -- A post-mortem on the labor-safety-valve theory / Fred A. Shannon -- The safety-valve doctrine re-evaluated / Norman J. Simler -- Sequential growth, the labor-safety-valve doctrine, and the development of American unionism / George G.S. Murphy, Arnold Zellner. |
| Subject |
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932.
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- Historiography.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography.
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Frontier thesis.
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Frontier and Pioneer Life -- United States.
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Historiography -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Lipset, Seymour Martin, compilor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970. Turner and the sociology of the frontier. New York, Basic Books [1968] (OCoLC)557887622 |
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Online version: Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970. Turner and the sociology of the frontier. New York, Basic Books [1968] (OCoLC)609314476 |
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